The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-06-09

of the Massachusetts penltentlary ny
Gov. Ames.
Prof. S. P. Boozer, of Greenwood,
who was stricken with apoplexy on Tues
day, died on Sunday.
- Senator. Elect Pasco, of Florida. is
the only Confederate private who has
ever been chosen to the United States
Senate.
"A snail's pace, according to the
Terre Haute Egpress, has been ascer.
tained by experiment to be q mile in
fourteen days.
A woman who counts her children
to the number of twenty.eight, it ls
stated, has been pensioned by the Mex.
ican Government.
The San Francisco ANa says new use
is discovered for the thimble. 1t is worn
while eating grapes to avoid staining the
finger with the fruit.
- A freight train on the South Caro-
lina railroad was wrecked by COW
twenty-five miles below Columbia on
Saturday night. Twelve box cars were
destroyed.
= Many Virginia farmers will harvest
an average of $1,000 to 10000 barrels of
Irish potatoes this season. There is
money in them as the general crop is
short.
The exodus of Chiuamen from the
Pacific coast has assumed such proportions
that it now exceeds that Of any previous
year. They say their business has been
steadily decreasing in California, and that
they are compelled to come east.
Mrs.. Liza Lokie, of Summerville,
near Augusta, found on Sunday that her
son Thomas, recently from Griffin, was
dying of consumption. She ran out to
call help, and dropped dead Of heart
disease. Her son died within an hour.
One of the most remarkable thefts
on record is reported from Whatcom,
Washington Territory, where thief stole
an entire orchard, just planted, hiding his
work for time By sticking willow twigs
in holes where the fruit trees had been.
"A lady in Birmingham wrote to q
lady friend in Montgomery to come up
and spend week with her. Among
other inducements held out she offered
this: "You can sit at my front window
and see seven funerals 60 by every day."
Engine 317 of the Baltimore & Po.
tomac railroad has just finished beating
the worlds record of running time. She
made two round trips a day between
Philadelphia and Washington for thirty
one days, covering in that time 1880
miles,.
= information reached the city yester.
day Of the horrible death of little
colored child at The Fork last Wednes.
day. The child was the daughter of
negro named Primus Ellison, and only
one year old. In some way she got at
and drank some concentrated lys left
about, and died within an hour after.
ward.-Cblunbia Register.
An eccentric old darkey, living just
outside the corporate limits, is never seen
without an ancient looking umbrella and
carpet bag in his hands. he says he
never knows when it is going to rain, and
when he gets anything he has something
to put it in. he always carries lighted
lantern at night, whether the moon is
shining or not.-Lancaster Reuiew.
The late Texas drought is said to
have disposed of the last few surviving
buffaloes in that State. In the wilds of
Crockett county miserable remnant of
the once countless herds had been
allowed To exc out an existence without
molestation from the cowboys or the set.
tiers. But when the drought had
destroyed crops and stock, necessity
drove the people to slaughter the buffa.
loes, and they are now no more.
A great national Sabbath school
convention is in session at Chicago.
Georgia is represented by ]. G. Courtney,
Us. Stewart, B; D. Brantly, r. B. Re.
phard andH. I. Kimball; South Carolina
by Robert G. Chisolm, g. w. Bussey and
Frank F. Whilden. Statistics furnished
show that there are 99,762 Sabbath
schools, which have 8,034, ,47S pupils and
1,1O7,17O teachers. Of these 5,291
schools, 28S, ,4l4pupils and 1904 teachers
to South Carolina: .,
Ex.Secretary Pomeroy, of Kansas,
who has been one of the most extreme
bon vivants in Washington, has become
convert of "the starvation cure" He is
sustaining life and reducing his super.
Auous flesh on three spoonfuls day of q
mysterious liquid now making sensation
at the capital. The liquid seems to pos
sess the properties Succis claims for his
elixir. At all events, Senator Pomeroy,
who is 70 years of age, has tasted for
twenty days, and says he Fever felt 30
well in his life.
1t has been determined to place
over Gen. Pickett's grave in Hollywood,
the monument which was proposed to be
erected at Gettysburg. The Gettysburg
Association objected that, under the rules
of the Association, no Confederate mon.
ument could be placed within the Union
lines or cemetery. Part of the inscrip.
ton objected to includes the following
lines, taken from memoranda found in
Gen. Lees satchel after the surrender:
"Glorious in his fate and envious in his lot
Who for his country fights and for his
country dies.
- Inefe are some Careless people III
the world yet. Among the articles left
by passengers in the trains of the New
York elevated railroads last year were
1,700 umbrellas and parasols, 1000
packages of clothing of all sorts, 300
pairs of shoes, 400 pocketbooks, 270
satchels. $50 pairs of gloves, 10 fans,
$50 hats, 300 linen collars, .260 pairs of
linen cuffs, 20 bracelets and 5 watches.
Several babies were also surreptitiously
disposed of in this way. l
- Mayor Cooper, of Atlanta, asserts
that after considering the matter in all
its phases be is satisfied that prohibition
in Atlanta has proved success. He
believes that the experiment has demon.
strated the fact that prohibition laws can
be enforced without detriment to the
business interests of the city. The
declaration is regarded as significant,
coming from man who has been con.
sistent and pronounced Anti.Prohibi.
ZIONIST, and it has occasioned much talk.
The citizens of Branchville were
startled. from their slumbers last Sunday
morning about day by the heavy report
of something similar to thunder or heavy
artillery. Early risers say that the whole
heavens were brilliantly lit up for a
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